Mailbox for April 23: Ask God for oil answers

When it was discovered, oil was being used mostly to grease the buggy wheels or a few pieces of machinery. As time went on, it was somewhat refined to a usable oil and to make kerosene for the new up-to-date kerosene lamps. Now fast forward to when the gasoline buggy was invented. At first, the engine ran on a crude refined mixture of kerosene/gasoline. We need to remember, before the gasoline buggy was invented, the substance we now know as gasoline was just burned off.

As the gasoline engine became more useful to power our automobiles, trucks and farm equipment, a byproduct, diesel fuel, was burned off as waste just as gasoline was before the horseless carriage was invented. At first, it was only 5-10 cents a gallon. My question is, why is diesel fuel so costly? It is a product that at one time the refineries didn’t know what to do with except to burn it or to kill weeds.

Now, as the trucks that deliver our goods are required to pay close to $4 a gallon to bring the food to our stores, the food will just rot in the fields as the truck owners will not make enough money to buy the fuel.

With all the people who are connected to any part of oil production trying to figure out why oil is so costly, have we forgotten that in all of our struggles through the history of America our country has asked God to lead us? Prayer does work, so why not try it? Let’s ask God to help us now as He did at the start of America. Prayer never cost even one cent but is worth more than all the wealth in the world! Just start each day with prayer and see what God can do!